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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2109763, member: 71234&quot;]<i>I didn&#039;t realize you were from England. Correct me if I am wrong? You only have to show proof of sending not of delivery like in the US for PayPal.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, the rules are the same. But in about 12 years of ebay selling I would lose maybe 3 or 4 items a year, and simply refund anyone who claimed not to have had their item. That&#039;s simple and cheap, and with a bit of diplomatic hand holding slow delivery could usually be smoothed over. Not that it happened all that often. It&nbsp; was far, far cheaper to treat all claims as genuine than to try and prove any one was not. </p><p><br /></p><p>During most&nbsp; of that period, there was no formal money back guarantee process, but that&#039;s what customers of good sellers got anyway, but on their word alone. Why not, compared with turnover and profit the cost was trivial.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The customs in the post office (US and foreign) check the packages. Why do you think that some items can sit there for 4 weeks? I just don&#039;t think they put them in a corner and wait. They are checked.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The British PO certainly does nothing of the sort, it&#039;s off to the airport and away. Countries have no interest in trivial exports, the stuff is gone and it&#039;s not their problem. </p><p><br /></p><p>With incoming stuff, detail collection is just not worth the trouble. Japan has an 8% tax on incoming items, but they do not bother to collect it. Australia has a AU$1000 import tax threshold, which is sensible. Canada has given up collecting legally due taxes on mail, for items under about 5 times the threshold of $20. Britain usually ignores stuff sent basic airmail, because it is usually low value, so it&#039;s only Priority and Express that might get dinged for import tax. Even then it&#039;s pretty random. </p><p><br /></p><p>All I can say is what my experience was over many years and a barnfull of stuff. Never a customs problem for my buyers, and just about never a customer problem for me.</p><p>Maybe coins, notes, watches, jewellery and small antiques buyers are a better class of people, I know I had buyers who stayed with me for years, buying on a weekly basis, and many of them I&#039;d run an account for, shipping stuff out the day&nbsp; after purchase and they&#039;d settle with a check once a month or so. Treat your customers as honourable and usually, they will be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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